Season 2 - Week 1 Flashcards
ANIMAL was a 1975 computer program that pretended to be a game while secretly copying itself into other locations. It is thus the first instance of what kind of malware, that misleads users of its true intent? The term was popularized by Ken Thompson in his 1983 Turing Award acceptance lecture, subtitled: “To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of [BLANKs]? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.”
Trojan Horse
National Apologies are often made by state leaders as a way to apologize for wrongs committed by the state. This apology was given by the USA only after a four-decades campaign by Norm Mineta — then a California congressman and a future Secretary of Transportation. Ronald Reagan signed the official Civil Liberties Act in 1988 and, two years later, George H.W.
Bush administration paid out $20,000 to all survivors of an act committed by the US in World War II camps on WHICH GROUP of people?
Japanese Americans
[Internment within Camps; Remember this is NOT the same as Japanese, so DO NOT
accept BUT may prompt]
Which Greek hero’s journey from Minoan Crete to Athens was commemorated every year by ancient Athenians, who sent a religious mission to the island of Delos on the same Athenian state galley used by the
hero? The galley thus had to be maintained in a seaworthy state, so any wood that wore out or rotted was replaced, giving rise to some interesting questions.
Theseus
In 1955, this country established a navy since it had access to sea but upon its loss of sea access to the newly formed neighbour in 1991, they weeded off their navy by 1996. However, a single naval boat
remains deployed to this day on Lake Tana - the source of the Blue Nile. Which country?
Ethiopia
In this form of weight training, one lifts the barbell from the ground to overhead in one continuous motion. The goal is to lift as high as possible, pulling oneself under it in a squat position, receiving the bar overhead with the arms straight. Which exercise - also an Olympic event - with varieties such as split, muscle, and power?
Snatch
Free[Blank] was the name (and also the associated hashtag) of the social movement to grant WHICH American singer autonomy from her conservatorship
that began in 2008? The movement became popular in 2019, after the emergence of allegations involving her
involuntary time in a psychiatric facility, eventually culminating with conservatorship being terminated in late 2021.
Britney Spears
The Curse of Billy The Goat supposedly struck a Major League Baseball team in 1945, after the owner of Billy The Goat Tavern and his goat were asked to leave the stadium during a World Series final game. He supposedly cursed the team, who spent another 71 years before winning the World Series. Which team?
[Full name needed]
Chicago Cubs
Which TV show created by Ryan Murphy for FX - as part of his media franchise - is an anthology with each season a self-contained miniseries? It has featured an
ensemble of actors ranging from Jessica Lange to Lady Gaga, who’ve both won Golden Globes for their performances in this 10-season show.
American Horror Story
[Full name needed, use your sound judgement to prompt if half answer
is given]
Britney Spears’ song ‘If U Seek Amy’ (2008) about her looking for a woman named Amy in a club caused a controversy in Anglophone nations when it was released, leading to an edited version replacing “Seek” with “See” in some regions. If you sing this line from the chorus out loud - “Love me, hate me, say what you want about me; But all of the boys and all of the girls are begging to if you seek Amy”, WHAT was the controversy?
“If U Seek Amy” sounds like “F-U-C-K me”
When the fans of Japanese Baseball team, Hanshin Tigers, celebrated their win in 1989 by stealing a statue from a restaurant chain and throwing it into the local river, it supposedly set off a curse that is YET to lift as the team has been winless since. Whose statue was this, the creator and mascot of a global food chain?
Colonel Sanders
[Prompt on KFC Founder/ Mascot and such equivalents]
When Casey Stoner won the MotoGP championship in 2007, WHICH European bike manufacturer became the first from the continent to win in 30 years? They’re also the current constructors champions, thanks to their supremely well built Panigale 4 bike.
Ducati
Allotropism is the property of some chemical elements to exist in two or more different forms i.e as allotropes. At atmospheric pressure, three allotropic forms of this element exist, depending on temperature: alpha, gamma, and delta [BLANK]. At very high pressure, a fourth form exists, called epsilon [BLANK]. These
allotropes have different solubilities in carbon, meaning that all the 3 allotropes at atmospheric pressure are used to form different grades of a commonly used alloy. Which element are we talking about?
Iron
Telegony is a disproven theory of hereditary that is a common feature in the origin stories of several heroes in Greek mythology, including Theseus. Specifically, it refers to the tale of Theseus’s mother Aethra, who escaped from the bedchamber of the drunken king Aegeus and met with the god Poseidon later that
night. What is telegony?
Two fathers / Shared paternity
In 2000, the president of WHICH country issued a national apology to the jews of his own country as well as those of the world due to his country’s act of allowing fleeing Nazis to settle in this country after WW II? In fact, in 1960, Israeli agents abducted Adolf Eichmann, a chief architect of the Holocaust, from his hide-out in the capital of this country.
Argentina
WHICH MATHEMATICIAN and computer scientist is considered the theoretical father of computer virology? He first mentioned “self-reproducing automata” in his lectures starting in 1949 and gave a design for a self-reproducing computer program, today considered the world’s first computer virus.
John Von Neumann
What is the title of the eighth studio album of Britney Spears? The album - Spears’ second eponymous record after “Britney” (2001) - refers to both her first and middle names, and ends up sounding similar to a 1983 smash hit.
Britney Jean
[Prompt on Jean, move on for just Britney. Don’t prompt on Billie Jean.]
Which country in East Africa operates a small navy who patrol Lake Victoria, even though it is landlocked? The lake forms a water border with two other neighbouring nations, raising the need for such a unit. Further, the White Nile also originates from this part of Lake Victoria and flows through the country.
Uganda
In his quest to find and kill the Minotaur, Theseus used a ball of thread to keep track of his path through the monster’s labyrinth. WHAT is the Middle English word
for ‘ball of thread’? The word lives on today in a similar sense, that of “anything that guides or directs in an intricate case”.
Clue
The Rider-Waite deck of tarot cards contained several differences from its predecessors when it was first published. One such change was the illustration used
on the sixth of the Major Arcana cards, The Lovers. While traditional depictions showed a couple receiving a blessing from a noble or a cleric, the Rider-Waite deck reduced the number of figures from three to two, thus enforcing its correspondence to WHAT SIGN from the world of astrology?
Gemini
In 2015, it was late Kobe Bryant who inaugurated a banner dedicated to a musician at the Staples Center, in honour of becoming the artist with most sell-out
shows at the venue. But this coincided with the drop in form of the LA Kings ice hockey team, who kept it covered for all games since 2019 and finally got it removed in 2021. Which musician’s curse is this supposed to be?
Taylor Swift
Which horror TV show brought together iconic characters from 19th century Victorian Gothic fiction including Dracula, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and more? On air for three seasons
between 2014 and 2016, the title is a
reference to a type of cheap literature from 19th century England.
Penny Dreadful
Users of American Sign Language (ASL) may occasionally opt for gestures that constitute puns or other combinations of the meaning of the word they’re signing. Which figure from the literary world can be referred to by raising a hand slightly above your shoulder, as you would if you were holding a javelin (or similar weapon), then shaking it vigorously?
Shakespeare
WHICH graphic novel of Alan Moore depicts an alternate history in which the presence of superheroes changed history so that the United States won the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal was never
exposed? The story - focused on the moral struggles of the protagonists - was remade as a Zack Snyder movie in 2009.
Watchmen
Dozens of famous actors from the UK and Ireland portrayed characters in the Harry Potter film series. Which Irish actor and singer played the role of Albus Dumbledore in the first two Harry Potter films, before the role was taken over by Michael Gambon? His most lauded roles were as Corrado Zeller in Red Desert (1964) and Frank Machin in This Sporting Life (1963), but he is probably better known for playing Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator (2000).
Richard Harris
While tarot decks are today commonly used for occult purposes, they were originally intended to be simple playing cards. Like common playing decks, tarot decks usually have 4 suits (which vary by region). Each suit has 14 cards: ace to 10, and 4 face cards: King, Queen, Jack/Knave/Page, and WHICH ADDITIONAL NOBEL FIGURE? This face card is referred to as the ‘caballo’ in Spanish decks, or the ‘cavallo’ in Italian decks. We’re looking for the English name.
Knight
[Prompt on Chevalier - which is the French]
What large, fast-moving, and highly venomous snakes of the genus Oxyuranus endemic to Australia got their name from that of a creator deity in Aboriginal culture? Each of its three known species - inland,
coastal, central ranges - are highly dangerous, with its venom content the highest on the planet.
Taipan
